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   Thankful Savings Monitor

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   http://redtape.msnbc.com/2009/11/latest-web-trap-for-consumers-the-fakeosphere.html

    

   Thankful, Nov 4, 2009

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   SIR****TMG Registered Member

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   Good Read

    

   SIR****TMG, Nov 4, 2009

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   Disturbing but hardly new: In 1962, Jürgen Habermas already noted that PR was invading public opinion by systematically engineering consent: 'The world fashioned by the mass media is a public sphere in appearance only.' A more contemporary take on this practice can be found here:
   
   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astroturfing

    

   Pinga, Nov 4, 2009

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